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BD Needles

Desbrina

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Messages
66
Location
Welwyn Garden City, Herts, UK
Type of diabetes
Other
Treatment type
Insulin
Anyone else having trouble getting BD micro fine ultra 4mm needles? My pharmacy hasn’t been able to get them now for almost 3 weeks and I’m nearly out, and they are the only needles I’ve tried that I actually get on with (being needle phobic)
 
There have been occasions when my usual pharmacy cannot get my needles (Glocorx fine) so I have taken the prescription to other phamcies and been lucky
I was told by a different pharmacy there are prolems with supply at times (from my company)
 
I’ve just been told by Boots my pharmacy that they can no longer get them. They have advised I get back to my GP to prescribe a different needle. The last time my surgery tried to change them for a cheaper needle, the cheaper needle would sting every time I used 1 so I’m not holding out much hope.
 
I’ve recently started an injectable medication and I have been prescribed Insupen needles, they seem fine to me but I have little to compare them with. But I do wonder if that was deliberate to prescribe them rather than the ones you all speak of.
 
I use nanopass 4mm needles and i find them better than any others i have used.

Tony
 
becca59 said:
The BD needles are for dispensing insulin.
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They are for testing bg not dispensing insulin, sorry I didn't think I was half asleep
 
My gp has tried a few times to prescribe cheaper ones, but every time I’ve tried I’ve ended up not taking the insulin so they didn’t have much choice but to change back
 
Does anybody get air bubbles in there injection pens and are they safe to use, I have had it in both Lantus and Novorapid
 
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